Paper box.



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APPLICATION HLEU JULY 16.1915- I Patented Dec. 18,1917.

Y To all whom it may concern:

`unrrnn sTATEs PATENT orricn 7 HARRY C. MEYER, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK,ASSIG-NOR. T0 NIAGARA SILK MILLS, INC., OF NORTH TONAWANDA, NEW YORK, ACORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PAPER BOX.

Be it known that I, HARRY C. MEYER, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, haveinvented a certain new and useful Paper Box, of which the follow-` ingis a specification.

This invention has duction of a paper or similar box articu larlyapplicable for containing and displaying articles, as gloves, stockingsand the like,

and it consists in the novel features of constructionfhereinafter setforth and claimed..

In describing this invention, reference is had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which like characters designate corresponding parts in allthe views.

- Figure 1 is a plan view of this box, the same being shown as open.

`Fig. 2 is an isometric view of the box showing the same as closed.

Fig. 3 is an end View showing lthe locking tongue in operative position.

Fig..4 is a'plan of the blank from which the box is folded.

This box comprises, generally, a body '1, a cover 2, and a strip 3connecting the body and the cover, and foldably connected to l each ofsaid parts 1,4 2. The box is' folded from a blank A which. is scoredalong marginal lines 4 and 5, and paralleltransverse lines 6 locatedcentrally of the blank midway between the lines 5 and being spaced apartthe same distance as 'the marginal lines-are spaced from the edges ofthe blank. The side marginal lines 4 and 5 intersect and form blockswhichv are Severedalong L the score lines 4, thereby forming aps or.

blocks 7, and the intermediate transverse lines 6 and the marginal lines4 intersect forming blocks 8 which divide the side margins set ofi bythe lines 4 intermediate of the e'nds of said margins, 'the blocks 8being severed .along the score lines 4 from the ends of the stripbetween the intermediate transverse lines 6, and along-one of the lines6 from the sections of the side margins on the cover 2 of the box,thereby forming iaps 9, this strip from which the iaps are severedconstituting the connecting strip 3.

The o posing side margins are bentupwardlyformng the Side Walls 10, 11of the forl its object the pro- 4 that it is simple in construction andeconomical 1n manufacture.

Patented Dec.' 18, 1917.

Application led July 16, 1915. Serial No. 40,234.

flaps 7,' 8 are bent inwardly, and the side. margins 12, 13 bentupwardly against said flaps and lsecured thereto by an adhesive.' Theiaps 9 are also inturned and when the cover isA closed, the strip 3abuts against said inturned ap's' 9.

When the cover is closed, the side walls of i body, 1 and .cover 2,respectively, and'V the the cover lap the side walls of the body, and

the c ove'r is held closed or from. accidental opening by suitable meansconsisting of a .slot'14 formed in oneof the side walls of the` body 1and a horizontally extending Vtongue 15 struck from the complementalwall of the cover, the tongue extending on opposite sides ,of the slotwhen the cover is closed, that is, the slot is located in a positionopposite the middle of the tongue. The tongue is here shown as formed byslitting the side` or end wall of the coveralon a line 16 parallel withthe free edge of said wall 13, and then downwardly at an inclined angleto a point near, but not intersecting, the edge of said wall 13'so thatthe tongue 15 is not completely severed at its free end, but isconnected to the' major part of the end wall 13 from which it is formed,bya narrow, easily-breakable' neck 17.

When it is desired to lock the box, after v the goods have been packedtherein, the neck 17 is severed and the tongue 15 looped back and theend thereof is inserted in the slot 14. Thefact that the end of thetongue is cut on a bias, facilitates not only the breaking of the neck17 at its free end, butvthe4 insertion of the tongue into'the slot.

This box'is particularly advantageous in cover folded'u from a blank and{iexibly A' paper box 4comprising-'a body, and -a vthe body and-'thecover, -the body and the cover having walls which lapat their free 1ends and one yof the lapping walls beingr vformed with a vertical slitand the other with a slit paralleling4 the free edge of thel` lWallinwhichI it is formed and with an- .other slit extending from the formertoward said-freeedge of said wall and ter-'- minating short of the samewhereby a Y.

g v e igeaoie tongue is connected at one end to the wall the county ofNiagara, and State of New lfrom which it is formed and is incompletelyYork, this 1st dey of July, 1915.

severed from said wall at its other end, substa-ntially as and for thepurpose described.

5 In testimony whereof I have hereunto Witnesses: signed my name in thepresence of two J. M. ROBBLEE, atsesting witnesses, ai; North Tonawanda,in E. E. WOODWARD.

HARRY o. MEYER. y

